Interviews with Coaches, HR Professionals and CEOs on OCTalkRadio.com

Archive for May 2012

Nahid Casazza is a twelve year business, transition and leadership coach who shares her own personal journey, lessons learned, and keys to success in her own practice. She is also the Past President of the International Coach Federation Orange County chapter and ran the most successful coaching week program ever!

Ongoing self-improvement can feel self-indulgent for a coach, and not as important as marketing or client care when it comes to building a successful practice. Yet it is the important and fulfilling thing you can do to become truly successful. Every time you take yourself to a new level of personal growth, your presence becomes stronger, your intuition sharper, and every interaction you have is more compelling, whether it is related to running your business more effectively, challenging a client to a new level, or living your own life more powerfully.

Ann Bennett an award-winning art director, and expert in graphic design, marketing and branding. She spent over 25 years making some of the world’s most prestigious magazines what they are today. These are magazines many of you read regularly and you may have even seen her marketing genius at work. Here are just a few of them: Us Magazine, Skiing Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Los Angeles Magazine and the icon of them all, Vogue Magazine – where she discovered that the devil really does wear Prada!

She is also an author, radio host, professional speaker and the founder of her 7 Step Irresistible Marketing and Mindset System. In her business she uses her marketing and branding genius to help women entrepreneurs make significant six-figure incomes. …She’s also been known to make a few male clients extraordinarily successful too!

She is the proud co-founder of an organization called, Living Beyond Belief.org, a unique charity saving the lives of teenagers who have been affected by the AIDS virus.

Viki Winterton is the founder of Expert Insights Family of Opportunity including Expert Insights Publishing, home of the best-selling Ready, Aim series; Insights and PUBLISHED! magazines and broadcast; and 2 global online communities with over 9200 active members and 25,000 subscribers. She is also co-founder of The Coaches' and Entrepreneurs' Edge Extravaganza. A respected coach and consultant Viki's successful twenty-five year career has garnered rave reviews and successful results in domestic and international settings for a wide variety of industries and Fortune 100 companies.

Listen as Paul Roberts, producer of OCTalkRadio and Doug share with you the highlights from this morning's Executive Conference on Cyber Security Threats that was produced by Critical Mass for Business.

Our guest today is Cory Bookman, Executive VP and COO , Western Region of Marcum Search LLC. We are going to get the scoop from Cory on what is “culture based screening” and other tips such as: 1)How to choose the right recruiting firm, 2)Putting the job description together, not the ten commandments, 3)See the person not the resume, 4)Understand what is off the page, 5)Coaching the client on how to interview (open ended questions, silence), and 6)Make your own decision, not the recruiters.

Our guest today is my new friend and role model, Matthew Emerzian of Every Monday Matters. For many people Monday was the least favorite day of the week. Monday was the day that ended your weekend; the day you HAD to go back to work; and the day you started a diet or decided to not smoke...again. EMM's goal is to change the image of Mondays by making them mean something AMAZING, something INCREDIBLE, something UNBELIEVABLE.

Don't miss hearing about this program that can engage your employees and make Mondays a day to look forward to.

We are one month into a new year and the question is "How are you doing on achieving your goals that you set for this year?" Goal setting is not a new topic, but their is always something new that we can learn about how to set goals that we can actually achieve. Join Doug to get some new tips and also find out how poor time management can sabotage your goal setting.

Every year coaches all around the world take this week to celebrate coaching. Find out what coaches in Orange County California are doing to make the community more aware of what coaching is and how it can help them.

This week the International Coach Federation released the executive summary of their Seven Annual Survey of Coaching from around the world. Listen to Doug as he gives you the highlights.

Join Doug in this conversation about Happiness and discover how happy employees are more productive employees. Listen to some of the tips that Zappos has shared. Is your coaching just focusing on problems or are you working with your clients to help make them happier?